[U-Boot] [PATCH 18/42] Blackfin: make sure autoconf.mk is generated early enough

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Feb 12 01:16:41 CET 2009


Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <200902111757.21416.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > If you define the processor variant right at  the  beginning  of  the
> > board  config  file,  then  why  would  that  not  be  visible in the
> > remainder of the board config so you'd have to re-run this?
>
> that's a string representation that defines (1) the variant and (2) the 
> silicon revision.  that gets turned into CFLAGS via -mcpu=... and the 
> toolchain itself then sets up the proper defines which everything else uses.

Sorry, I still fail to see in which way this is different for BF than
for any other architecture?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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